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"The Z97-G55 SLI used the ASMedia ASM1142 Controller that requires two PCIe 2.0 lanes, which puts more pressure on PCIe lanes given the new storage technologies implemented on the 9-series that also require PCIe lanes."

This is exactly why I was impressed with AMD for providing Kaveri with 24x PCIe 3.0 lanes on the chip, a far more forward looking platform than the marketing-crippled s1150.

All we need is an Kaveri FX with three steamroller modules and 256 shaders on board...Reply

amd is simply not going to make those products, for it goes against the entire purpose of creating HSA.

they might on the other hand differentiate a new FX range from the current mainstream by adding cores and removing shaders. spending more of the power/transistor budget on the CPU rather than the GPU.Reply

The math is the same. If you're using a PCIe x16 graphics card, then both Z97 and Kaveri have 8 remaining PCIe lanes. It doesn't matter whether they are PCIe 2.0 or 3.0 because the USB 3.1 controller only accepts PCIe 2.0 anyway.Reply

X99 and only M.2 with 2 PCIe 2.0 connections? Screw that! Why is ASRock the only manufacture capable of a higher speed implementation? I mean seriously: if you want to give us a new solution for connecting SSDs make it goddamn faster!Reply

I had also read that DDR4 moved to a point-to-point bus, but apparently there was a spec change late in the game to enable multiple DIMMs per channel at a cost to clockspeeds. It's rather disappointing that motherboard manufacturers are choosing to implement this outside of servers, I'd rather see more workstation/enthusiast boards with fewer, faster DIMM slots.Reply

This is a quad channel board, with 2 DIMM's per channel. Not sure what the deal is with the whole One Dimm Per CHannel thing... but I guess that's not that case.. It would be good for someone at AT to do a quick writeup on that, though!Reply